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In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He took three ships with him, too, And called aboard his faithful
crew. Mighty, strong and brave was he As he sailed across the open sea. Some people still thought the world
was flat! Can you even image that? - A traditional child’s poem - In a
recent post we remarked that conventional
wisdom assumes a perpetual conflict between Christianity and science—perpetual and inevitable—because the two are inherently
irreconcilable.[1] The history of science is
said to be the history of the emancipation of the human race from the ignorance
and superstition foisted upon society by two millennia of Christian teaching by
obscurantist clergy who suppressed (sometimes violently) discoveries that
undermined the view of the world as depicted in the Bible. John
William Draper, for example, accused the Catholic Church of “ferociously
suppressing by the stake and the sword every attempt at progress.”[2]
This idea of the violent persecution of sc…